Items Tagged with 'sewage'

DC Water CEO David Gadis cited long-term access easements, standardized permitting timelines and better regulator field coordination "to prevent a recurrence of the failure," but one stakeholder lamented there was no conclusive spill cause or 'clear plan' to avoid future ones.

Separate lawsuits claim delayed repairs and neglect resulted in release of hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage from the Potomac Interceptor pipeline earlier this year.

D.C. mayor’s declared disaster site gets additional federal help, while utility DC Water predicts repairs to finish in mid-March—but longer-term costs and impact concerns remain.

Utility DC Water is boosting efforts to repair ruptured 72-in. sewer line, the largest untreated wastewater spill in U.S. history, according to experts, with as much as 300 million gallons released into the river. 

Administrator Lee Zeldin called for Mexico to work with the U.S. to finally end sewage flows from Tijuana into southern San Diego County. 

Chicago has around 400,000 homes with lead service lines. Although the city has made EPA's safe drinking water standard, the homes tested mostly belong to employees and retirees from the water management department and the voluntary replacement program is not funded beyond 2021.

Construction crews across Massachusetts are repairing busted water and sewage lines after a massive snowstorm dubbed the “bomb cyclone.” 

A consent decree to rehabilitate Baltimore’s century-old sewer system has been endorsed by a federal judge.